The phrase "comprehend by" is not used often in written English.
A better phrase to use would be "understand." For example, "I understand what you are saying."
"This man," said Bernard, "presumes to be able to comprehend by human reason the entirety of God".
Yet we are human, and sometimes we can only comprehend by seeing the world as our mirror.
Suicide, almost impossible to comprehend by those without mental illness, then becomes a blame game, as we clutch at straws to explain why someone could have ended their own lives.
But if it is even remotely accurate, it captures a callousness toward life and family that is difficult to comprehend by the standards of the West, where the news media go into overdrive when a single child turns up missing.
"We produced hits numbers because we could, not because it was useful," says one old-timer in the industry.By comparison, page views do actually mean something, and are easy to comprehend by analogy to the offline world to boot many advertisers are still used to counting pagination in magazines.
The war suddenly seemed not like something you could comprehend by stitching together its broadcast pieces but like something that had been dropped on a hard floor and shattered: you just sat there staring at the shards, the task of putting them back together too overwhelming.
Asked whether the message, whatever it was, was comprehended by the players, Collins emphatically replied, "Oh yeah".
"He reports on some of the conversations, like he couldn't believe the narrowness or lack of comprehending by public officials.
The kind of thing Lulu thinks women need to know about men are comprehended by such labels as #big.feet, #kinkyintherightways and #smellsamazeballs.
Dieudonne understands something comprehended by all antisemites: that for antisemitism to win, the Holocaust itself must be defeated, its place in the collective memory destroyed.
Perhaps it didn't occur to him that this message might not be as easily comprehended by those who hadn't just enjoyed a four-course meal.
